Of course, elites resisted at every turn. When, for example, the industrial revolution encouraged a sky-rocketing demand for an educated workforce, the ruling elites partitioned the system and provided educational streams to carefully manage levels of attainment and knowledge. Members of elite families went to special schools that were closed (either formally or through an excessively high cost of tuition) to the general population. There they were trained in the ways of power and authority. People in the common streams were confined to lower levels of education and trained with ideological systems (raise your hand please, wait for the bell please, sit quietly and work please) designed to keep them prostrate before authority while giving them enough knowledge to function in emerging industrial and, later, knowledge based economies.
The turning point for education, i.e., the point where it became predominantly an instrument of light, came when elite control of the system virtually disintegrated during and following the 1960s entrance of the flower children. Among their many contributions, these ones opened the doors of higher education in North America (and elsewhere) to many who had been denied this privilege in the past. Their overall strategy has been quite successful.
Despite ongoing efforts to make universities and colleges inaccessible (for example by raising fees and restricting resources in desperate attempts to stem demand), enrolments continue to increase and access to information continues (with setbacks here and there) to proliferate.
Of course, just having a university degree does not guarantee you will develop the ability to think critically. You have to be willing to see the truth. Nor is learning confined to educational institutions (as the proliferating self-help literature indicates). The important point here however is not in the specific outcomes but in the general enlightenment encouraged by education and literacy. Over the centuries we have seen a growth in the way people of this earth approach truth and knowledge. Centuries ago, the masses of this planet performed two simple functions; they worked and they ate. Anything outside of that was carefully cordoned off and kept out of their reach by elite propaganda and indoctrination. People were not stupid or without potential. They were simply kept in ignorance and fed lies in order to support and justify their servitude (divine right of kings, rule by government, etc.). Bringing the population to a point where they believed they had both the ability to learn and the right to knowledge, and where they approached learning and change as desirable, was a struggle that took our starseeds centuries to accomplish.
Literacy and education were not the only starseed interventions that helped foster a new orientation to truth among the people of this planet. There was also the introduction of science. Nothing supports the elimination of superstition and the quest for truth more than the activities of science. Science has helped bring better dental care, better hygiene, warmer homes, and longer life (among a host of other benefits) and these things make the case for education and learning. Of course, it has not been a completely smooth ride as science coupled with elite prerogative has also been responsible for unspeakable horror. There is also a considerable amount of “spiritual dogma” in science. Science has it’s own answers to the “big question,” for example, and these answers generally support elite prerogative.
For example, much evolutionary and Darwinian theory provides support for the hierarchical systems of privilege, power, and control that benefit the elites of this planet. Whereas once, obscene wealth and privilege may have been justified by reference to “god’s plan” (e.g., during medieval times the Church was heavily involved in justifying the wealth and privilege of the nobility by telling the peasants that God had given them their estate and therefore they should shut up and just accept it), now it is justified by reference to genetic prerogative (e.g. people are rich and powerful because they are genetically stronger or smarter than everyone else).
However, despite its negative aspects, science has provided an important contribution to the overall Infrastructure of light that starseeds came to build. Of course, if ruling elites resisted any attempts to educate the masses of this planet, they also resisted science and technology. Although this may come as a surprise in an age where science and technology are such pervasive and accepted institutions, the elites actually saw science as a threat. This was especially true in earlier days when the elites used superstition and charlatanry to dazzle, confuse, and justify their privileged positions. The problem for those in control was that those who came in the name of science generally came with a very powerful challenge.
Their challenge was to show that those who held traditional authority as God’s representatives on earth (priests, kings, Brahmans, etc.) in fact did not have exclusive pipelines to divine knowledge. When Copernicus came and suggested that the sun was the centre of local space, the problem was not so much with the shift in stellar focus but the idea that the priests themselves could be wrong. If they were wrong about something as important as the location of the sun, they could be wrong about many things. Those in authority feared that once people started to question their knowledge and ability, their authority would be quickly undermined. Herein lies the importance of science to our discussion. Its message was simple. Challenge everything. Trust nothing. Always seek the highest truth.
Most of you will be aware of the history of science and know what happened. Even though the elites resisted the spread of truth, and even though they killed and tortured many who challenged their authority, science spread.
Interestingly, elites eventually gave in and embraced the very science they originally resisted. They did this not because they gave up their struggle but because they were able to turn science into the handmaiden of elite domination. They realized, for example, that science could replace religion as an ideological system of control. They also found that they could siphon off the wealth that science generated and use it for their own benefit. Finally, they learned that science could create powerful tools of war, oppression, and servitude. Since shortly after its inception, scientists serving the interests of elite domination, has created all sorts of technological terrors with which to kill, maim, and oppress.
By the end of the 20th century, science had created ideological systems to justify your oppression (e.g. Social Darwinism), ways to strip the nutrition out of your food (e.g. white bread) and keep your mind dull, and all sorts of biological and chemical straight jackets for your mind and consciousness. The list of infamy that has been perpetrated in the name of science is almost endless.
However, despite the fact that science has come to service elite agendas, in many ways it has remained a tool of freedom. Science, like most human endeavours, is complicated and multi-faceted and in the end, the elites never really had good control of the scientific enterprise. Even in its early days, the expansion of the scientific enterprise outstripped their ability to control and manage the process. The spread of scientific literature, the penetration of the scientific enterprise into the emerging middle classes, and the synergistic effect of the printing press and other technological interventions led the elites into a never ending struggle to contain scientific innovations and twist new truths in ways that supported elite rule. It was a struggle they were destined to lose.
You are a shining example of the successful completion of this struggle. Even twenty years ago, chances are that you would have accepted none of what has been said in these pages despite the fact that it is the truth. Your superstition, fear, and paranoia would have prevented you from getting past even the introduction of this book. Even if you had been interested, a book such as this would not make it past elite gatekeepers in the publishing industry. Such a clear and concise presentation would have been halted at the publisher’s gate or suppressed shortly after publication. Getting it past the gatekeepers would have required that the truths contained herein be obscured with so much verbiage and esoteric drivel that the book would have been impossible to read.
Things have changed now though, and quite dramatically. This book, and many others like it, can now be published outside of the gate keeping monopoly presses without the need to fool the gatekeepers. Getting the technological, social, and political spheres to a point where a book such as this one could emerge, and getting the human populations to the point where they would voluntarily open and read The Book of Life, has taken centuries of political, social, and technological intervention. - The Book of Life
